All the World’s a Stage
What does it mean to perform, to stand before an audience and to share your story, your art, your voice?
What does it mean to perform, to stand before an audience and to share your story, your art, your voice? The Cultural Frontline explores the transformative power of performance.
The writer and poet Yrsa Daley-Ward reveals how writing and performing poetry has helped her come to terms with her upbringing, her sexuality and her mental-health battles, as recounted in her new memoir, The Terrible.
How do you give new meaning to an iconic feminist play? We find out why the ground breaking performer Nandar staged Myanmar’s first ever performance of The Vagina Monologues.
We head to one of Sao Paulo’s most notorious areas, Cracolandia or “land of crack” and meet the people behind an unconventional theatre company reaching out to drug addicts through drama.
Plus, the acclaimed opera star Danielle De Niese shares the story of the work of literature that inspired her to pursue a life of performance.
Presenter: Tina Daheley
(Photo: Performance of The Vagina Monologues in Myanmar. Credit: Rachel Briggs/ѿý)
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- Sat 14 Jul 2018 02:32GMTѿý World Service except Online, Australasia, News Internet & UK DAB/Freeview
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